Luka Kids has unveiled an AI drawing projector at IFA that converts a child’s spoken prompt into an outline for them to trace and finish themselves. The EU’s new toy safety regulation requires manufacturers to assess mental health risks in digitally co…
Mark Zuckerberg raised concerns about a proposed national AI regulator in a previously unreported call with Donald Trump in mid-August, Politico reports. The two options still on the table are a FINRA-style body funded by the firms it would oversee and…
Adobe named Anil Chakravarthy president and chief executive from 1 December, with Shantanu Narayen moving to executive chair. Chakravarthy came up through Digital Experience and worldwide field operations, arrived from enterprise data company Informati…
Google has made Lyria 3.5 available in the Gemini app and API, generating full songs at 44.1kHz from text or images with SynthID watermarking. A Munich court ruled against Suno on 31 July over memorised works and infringing outputs, asserting jurisdict…
The Federal Trade Commission and 22 states sued Amazon in Seattle on 31 August, alleging it inflated auction prices for Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands and Sponsored Display, and generated more than $20bn in additional advertising costs since 2019…
VW’s surprise restructuring agreement boosted the shares, closing Friday up 6.23%. Investors had expected a VW supervisory board fudge and were surprised by an agreement.
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on 3 September, saying it outperforms every rival including Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini. Astra is “state-of-the-art on computer use, browsing, software engineering, cyber security, science, and professional work”,…
ChargePoint shares rose more than 70% after second-quarter revenue of $116.1M beat the $105.2M expected and losses came in far below forecast. Its Level 3 rollout targets Europe, where AFIR mandates a 150kW charging point every 60km on the trans-Europe…
Harrison Ford and Michael J. Fox teamed up with the help of Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort to film a new PSA for The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.
Netflix has added what could be considered one of the best horror films of the 2020s, and its lead gives an all-timer performance.